Donald M. Stinson Biography

Don Stinson is the author of the best-selling memoir Downstairs at the White House. At the age of 17 he landed a job in the White House during Watergate the biggest political scandal in American history. A truly insignificant member of the Nixon White House staff he frequently loitered outside of the Oval Office to watch it unfold.
He was also a kid who did the same kind of harebrained things most teenagers do. Only steps away from the Oval Office he fought with a foreign head of state for space in a restroom. He had Bob Hope and Charlton Heston as his wingmen one night. He devised a shortcut that tripped countless alarms and summoned an agitated band of Secret Service agents. He spilled ice water on Frank Sinatra. And that was just the small stuff.
Now a writer speaker and negotiation strategist Stinson spent 29 years in the newspaper industry including a decade as senior vice president/marketing of the Newspaper Division of Gannett Co. Inc. (best known for its flagship USA TODAY) responsible for overseeing the advertising and circulation sales marketing and research operations of 100 U.S. daily newspapers. In 2005 he received the Newspaper Association of America's Lifetime Sales and Marketing Leadership Award.

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